For marine protected areas established to help coral reefs recover from overfishing, size really does seem to make a difference.
Environment
Feb 6, 2017
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The enemies were thrown together, so the killing began. Brandishing harpoon-like appendages covered in poison, two armies of cholera bacteria stabbed each other, rupturing victims like water balloons. Scientists at the Georgia ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 6, 2017
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Using a Bose-Einstein condensate composed of millions of sodium atoms, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have observed a sharp magnetically-induced quantum phase transition where they expect to find entangled ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 3, 2017
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A frog uses its whip-like tongue to snag its prey faster than a human can blink, hitting it with a force five times greater than gravity. How does it hang onto its meal as the food rockets back into its mouth?
Plants & Animals
Jan 31, 2017
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In regenerative medicine, the ideal repair material would offer properties that seem impossibly contradictory. It must be rigid and robust enough to be manipulated surgically, yet soft and porous enough to allow healing cells ...
Polymers
Jan 27, 2017
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By scanning 66 million tweets linked to nearly 1,400 real-world events, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have built a language model that identifies words and phrases that lead to strong or weak perceived levels ...
Social Sciences
Jan 27, 2017
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Chemical separation processes account for as much as 15 percent of the world's total energy consumption. Development of next-generation molecularly-selective synthetic membranes will be among the drivers for more efficient, ...
Materials Science
Jan 26, 2017
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A simple technique for producing oxide nanowires directly from bulk materials could dramatically lower the cost of producing the one-dimensional (1D) nanostructures. That could open the door for a broad range of uses in lightweight ...
Nanophysics
Jan 19, 2017
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780
How big you are may be as important as what you look like, at least to immune system cells watching for dangerous bacteria and viruses.
Biochemistry
Jan 17, 2017
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10
Pluto's relationship with its moon Charon is one of the more unusual interactions in the solar system due to Charon's size and proximity. It's more than half of Pluto's diameter and orbits only 12,000 or so miles away. To ...
Space Exploration
Jan 9, 2017
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